A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…

How then can that counsel which is given to your Majesty, be commended, to wit, that garments unknown to the Christian world in that time of the Apostles, and Apostolical men, should be brought into the Church of Christ. And if an out-landish kind of attire be not tolerated in well-governed Common-wealths, how much less are Idolatrous, and heathenish garments to be borne with in the Church, where God is to be worshipped in spirit and truth, and where he would have few and very simple Ceremonies? Also if God established by his Law, that a woman may not putt on a mans apparel, nor a man a woman's, the one being so well of it self dishonest, and contrary to nature as the other: Why then should godly Bishops, ^†and the servants of Christ be clothed, or rather shamed and deformed with the garments of godless Priests, and slaves of Antichrist? Why should we not rather, as we be of a divers religion from them, so also be discerned from them, at least in the performance of such duties as belong unto Gods worship, by outward signs, such as garments be? Verily this was Gods will, and he required of his people, ⟨p. 54⟩that it should be discerned from the profane Gentiles, as by other things, so also by a divers sort of apparel, and so should profess by this public sign, that it would have nothing to do with the Gentiles.

How then can that counsell which is given to your Majesty, be commended, to witt, that garments unknowne to the Christian world in that time of the Apostles, and Apostolicall men, should be brought into the Church of Christ. And if an out-landish kinde of attire be not tolerated in well-governed Common-wealthes, how much lesse are Idolatrous, and heathenish garments to be borne with in the Church, where God is to be worshipped in spirit and truth, and where he would have few and very simple Ceremonies? Also if God established by his Law, that a woman may not putt on a mans apparrell, nor a man a womans, the one beeing so well of it selfe dishonest, and contrary to nature as the other: Why then should godly Bishops, ^†and the servants of Christ be clothed, or rather shamed and deformed with the garments of godlesse Priests, and slaves of Antichrist? Why should wee not rather, as wee be of a divers religion from them, so also be discerned from them, at least in the performance of such duties as belong unto Gods worship, by outward signes, such as garments be? Verily this was Gods will, and he required of his people,